Jack / Ab / Squat Challenge!

My daughter & I started this weight loss journey together 4 weeks ago. Although she’s 2 ½ hours away we stay on top of each other’s workouts, & progress via phone & text. We weigh ourselves every Friday & take a picture of the scale & text it to each other lol. Last night she told me about doing 7000 Jumping Jacks in a week to lose a lb. I know everyone burns calories differently so this can’t be true for everyone but I figured it’s worth a try. Jumping Jacks are a good way to warm up before a workout and could also be incorporated in a cardio workout. However Jumping Jacks are boring & trying to do 1000 straight would be a killer. I decided to jazz up the challenge a little bit & combine abs & squats. The idea is to do 100 reps of abs & squats with 1000 reps of jumping jacks. Instead of doing the same exercise I used 5 different ab & squat exercises 20 reps each with 100 jumping jacks in between. My first challenge day will be after work today but I’m guessing it shouldn’t take more than 20-30 mins to do the entire workout because you want to do it quickly to keep your heart rate up. I’m going to try it every day for 7 days! Please feel free to join us the more the merrier!

Here we go:
100 Jumping Jacks
20 Crunches
100 Jumping Jacks
20 Standard Squats
100 Jumping Jacks
20 Side Crunches (elbow to opposite knee)
100 Jumping Jacks
20 Kick Back Squats
100 Jumping Jacks
20 Reverse Crunches
100 Jumping Jacks
20 Plie` Squats
100 Jumping Jacks
20 Standing Side Bends (elbow to same side knee)
100 Jumping Jacks
20 Explosive Lunges
100 Jumping Jacks
20 C pulses (crunch with knees @ a 90 & pulse for 20)
100 Jumping Jacks
20 Touch Down Squats